Mood:  rushed

A mystery link !

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http://www.tomtom.com

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Heres a list of belated gift ideas, this first one might beat a travel zone alarm clock to the top of the wish list:

a personalized framed wall map allows travelers to chart their voyages around the globe by marking all destinations past, present, or future

BUT 

hey how 'bout this one, do you really need an excuse or reason like Christmas to adopt a stuffed animal>?

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 Hmmh, does DIGITAL HERO  have any special connotation for any web surfer wanderers out there?

Try your luck with this link.

Or here if you really want to brave the waters.

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The LA TIMES wants you to know you can turn any lounge into an office ......an airport lounge no less. 

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Best wishes to Machs Cafe visitors and Seasons Greetings.

Make love, you're goal.  - -

Gunmen kill Philippine journalist on Christmas Eve

 Colombia grandma wants hostages free for Christmas

No Christmas joy for Zimbabweans

White-knuckle Christmas for British fogged-in flyers

Christmas road toll climbs

No Christmas sentence cut for Corby

Christmas in Kandahar not quite the same without snow and family
Windsor Star

Celebrating Christmas in Iraq means compromise for US troops ...

Posted by mach1231 at 12:12 AM PST

Updated: Tuesday, December 25, 2007 12:45 AM PST

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Mood:  on fire

Meet Tyrone everyone. He's a real nice brother and from now on in case anyone wants to make bad comments about Mach Daddy(lol) on this cafe or anyone else's...your comments are gonna have to get by Tyrone first. So say it to his face like it were mine.(lol)

Hes been hired ! So take care.... 

 and he hates being call 'Swagguh'. So don't even try it. Youve been warned- (lol)

Posted by mach1231 at 8:38 PM PST

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Mood:  happy

Hey!

Anyone want to take @ look @ my desktop?

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Hey, anyone interested in seeing my latest video?

Heaven is a Place on Earth 

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Posted by mach1231 at 6:57 PM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:57 PM PST

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Mood:  lyrical

As a great scientist one said in an esssay called 'The World as I see It'.

"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious."

Posted by mach1231 at 6:56 PM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 7:59 PM PST

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Mood:  suave

You know ...

Schengen zone enlarges on Dec. 21

Private security guards will patrol the nightly streets of the village Deutschkreuz near the Austro-Hungarian border

Austrian village hires private security for Schengen enlargement

Visitors to UK face tough new visa rules

.....there was a time when a country called Finland vowed to use its position of Presidency of the European Union to disallow non-potato or grain based vodkas to call themselves: "vodka".

This would have meant that many European vodkas made from molasses, sugar beet or grapes (mainly produced by UK, Hungary and the Czech Republic) would have to re-name themselves: 'spirit drink' .

At the time, the Finnish State Secretary for Agriculture, was "~very confident~" Finland would succeed in legally restricting the use of the name 'vodka'.

Part of the argument against such a change, in addition to forcing up the price of certain brands as they switched raw ingredients or require producers to change their labels, was the sentiment stated by EU Corporate Relations Director Alan Butler on the company's premium brand Ciroc ( made from French grapes)

"I can't envisage any British people going into a bar and proudly asking for a 'white spirit/martini'.."

 But now, almost two and half years later,

liquor companies including Diageo Plc will retain the right to label spirits made from grapes as ``vodka'' under a European Union accord 

EU Rules `Vodka' Can Be Made From Grapes in Victory for Diageo

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".... it's in the potato"

 Time magazine's "Person of the Year" for 2007

All eyes on Russia as UN Security Council takes up Kosovo talks 

EU decides to deploy police mission to Kosovo

Kosovo, Serbia to Square Off at UN

German Ambassador Wolfram Maas says, for his country, Serbia’s EU integration and Kosovo are completely separate issues. 

Issue and analysts say Vladimir Putin's backing of Belgrade is likely to make it more difficult for western nations to push through Kosovo's secession .

China, and especially Russia, oppose independence for Kosovo against Belgrade’s wishes and argue that more talks should be held.

(Russia calls EU Kosovo mission illegal: Interfax )

Posted by mach1231 at 8:17 AM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:01 PM PST

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Mood:  cool

 here.

Posted by mach1231 at 10:39 PM PST

Updated: Saturday, December 22, 2007 8:47 PM PST

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In 2005, a small Perth company, Range Resources Limited, signed a mysterious deal with the Somali government for exclusive mineral and oil rights, but now, with the a dissolving of cabinet recently

and soon after the Somali state created an oil ministry amid renewed clamour for resources.

 It was kind of interesting especially along with news reports that the 'Business as usual’ approach to a country called Somalia

will no longer work.

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 And what with sea pirates ,

children dead now in the country from war shelling 

and Somali drugs(khat) maybe funding terrorism

in a country where war is followed by disease 

See also :

Major Increase In Black Fever Found In War-torn Somalia

and (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071030220112.htm )

 and at least one French journo hostage

and journos facing persecution or worse ,

theres a combat raging on in Somalia that is no better than Darfur

And a year after the US-backed Ethiopian army toppled a hard-line Islamist regime in Somalia, the country has become a country where no place is a safe haven for families

... - -but, (BUT?) now

Saudi could lead new Somali peace drive-UN official
Reuters South Africa, South Africa - 17 Dec 2007

See also Somalia: A nation in ruins
. .

Belgium opens first European embassy in Somalia since 1991

"Peace"keepers???

Health tourism booming in Belgium

Posted by mach1231 at 11:55 AM PST

Updated: Tuesday, March 25, 2008 10:12 AM PDT

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Mood:  caffeinated

The FTC may be sued over conflict of interest in approving the Double-Click and Google merger.

Privacy groups: FTC has obligation in Google deal

 But  the tougher fight for Google and DoubleClick could be in Europe, where the EC could take to heart a strongly worded objection from dissenting commissioners.

US Adults Too Busy Googling Each Other to Worry Much About Privacy

Looks like Flaggers are asleep on this one. Of course with France's

Sarkozy previously been accused of blurring France's traditional boundaries between public and private life and with now

 France wanting to cut off pirates from the Internet

 with a name like "The Balck Flag Cafe", I doubt very much that the owners and denizens and users there feel very prone to be drawn into the age of civility.

Why? Because its so yesterday and were talking revolution.

In France, in October 2002, France’s Supreme Court held in Nikon France v. Onos that an employee has a right to privacy at the workplace during working

French auction houses sue eBay

Posted by mach1231 at 11:40 AM PST

Updated: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 9:02 PM PDT

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Mood:  on fire

Tunnels dug under the border of Gaza and Egypt gets guns through.

"In the past we could smuggle weapons in for both Fatah and Hamas, when they were fighting each other, but now there is no internal fighting and Hamas controls everything. Nobody wants weapons any more," 

 RYP head to this hell hole and report gas shortage, children who need care

http://www.sundayherald.com/international/shinternational/display.var.1891492.0.0.php 

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Posted by mach1231 at 11:56 PM PST

Updated: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 12:06 AM PST

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